Contact Info

Dr. Boudreau is a Senior Investigator at the Group Health Research Institute as well as an affiliate faculty member in both the Department of Epidemiology and Pharmacy at the University of Washington. She is involved in a wide array of pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacoeconomic research projects at Group Health and across the HMO Research Network (HMORN). She has extensive experience working with automated health plan data and bring expertise in the areas of observational study design/comparative effectiveness, managed care, drug safety, and economic evaluation. She has been the HMORN Steering Committee Representative on the FDA Mini Sentinel Initiative since 2009. Her main research interests include cancer pharmacoepidemiology, opioid safety, bone health, and cost of cancer.

Projects

Safety of long term opioid therapy for chronic non-cancer pain, FDA Mini-Sentinel Initiative for active drug safety surveillance, Association between various medications and sudden cardiac death, Commonly used medications and colorectal cancer outcomes; Metformin use and risk of various site specific cancers; and Factors associated with non-guideline care following osteoporotic fractures.